by Free the Slaves | Dec 8, 2011 | Haiti
Editor’s Note: This story was taken from the FTS website and edited. Like tens of thousands of children in Haiti, Cam-Suze was held as a restavec, a child slave. Haitian parents who lack the resources required to support their children must often send them to...
by Terry FitzPatrick | Sep 27, 2010 | FTS Updates
Like tens of thousands of children in Haiti, Cam-Suze was held as a restavek*, a child slave. Her life changed when she met Free the Slaves’ partner, Fondasyon Limyè Lavi. When she was recently asked to contrast her life now with a childhood in slavery she said: “Oh...